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arnabas Root was probably the first black man to receive a college degree in Illinois, according to Hermann Muelder in "Missionaries and Muckrakers: The First Hundred Years of Knox College" (University of Illinois Press, 1984).
arnabas Root was probably the first black man to receive a college degree in Illinois, according to Hermann Muelder in "Missionaries and Muckrakers: The First Hundred Years of Knox College" (University of Illinois Press, 1984).
Forces War Records, Barnabas Root (1848-1877) (https://nz.forceswarrecords.com/subject/1031/barnabas-root-1848-1877/facts : accessed 18/10/2024), database and images, https://nz.forceswarrecords.com/subject/1031/barnabas-root-1848-1877/facts